low-code

Primarily involving a graphical user interface rather than a text-based one.

Adjective

Primarily involving a graphical user interface rather than a text-based one.
- Some firms are turning to new, "low-code" application platforms that accelerate app delivery by dramatically reducing the amount of hand-coding required. - 2014 June 9, Clay Richardson, John Rymer, “New Development...
- Whereas no-code software aims at creating software applications entirely without writing any code in a programming language, low-code development takes a slightly relaxed perspective and is directed towards simplifying...
Programmed using a low-code development environment.
- Low-code applications can hence accumulate high complexity, bugs and other forms technical debt just as badly or even worse than traditional applications. However, the languages created for low-code platforms commonly...

First used in a report by Forrester published on June 9, 2014 (see quotation).

The practice of developing applications via a low-code development environment.
- However, the distinction between no-code and low-code is not always evident, and this extends to the low-code and no-code platforms themselves. Many technology product analysts regard no-code to be a subset of the...